<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 10:27 AM, David Edmundson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@davidedmundson.co.uk" target="_blank">david@davidedmundson.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Martin Klapetek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.klapetek@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.klapetek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Kai Uwe Broulik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kde@privat.broulik.de" target="_blank">kde@privat.broulik.de</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
> Even more so than with look and feel that will be beneficial for cross-platform users. After all alert sound specificity is supposed to aid in determining what's going on and how to react.<br>
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</span>If I hear the generic Windows drum sound I know that an error happened. If I hear the Oxgen sound on Windows I might not do that.<br>
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While I am one of those negligible "I use Kate and Dolphin on Windows because Notepad and Explorer suck" users, I still want native integration and not a "familiar KDE interface". I bet the average one-platform user group we imho should be targeting does the same.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>This^. Very much this.</div><div><br></div><div>Please don't make our apps aliens in other environments.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></span><div>Renè isn't doing the individual standalone OS X packages, which should have the tight host integration. Other people are doing that.<br><br></div><div>He's doing macports which is *very* different. Macports even has X11 and Fluxbox.<br></div><div>If you're running kate on X with a fluxbox WM, having native OS X integration just because of your kernel doesn't make too much sense.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>However, the discussion started with "<span style="font-size:12.8px">an initial approach at evaluating</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">what builds and what makes sense on a ~Plasma desktop, X11 or OS X</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(or MS Windows, presumably)."</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">In that context, it doesn't make sense to use KDE's notification sounds for</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">apps running </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">on OS X or MS Windows, presumably, if they can be replaced</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">with native </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">counterparts *by default*. By all means give the user tools to break</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">his system, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">but defaults should be sensible in a way that the application does</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">not look and behave like an alien app.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">On a side note, KNotification doesn't really have much other use on ~X11</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">than playing sounds.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><div>Cheers</div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer</span></div></div>
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